Absolutely.
Which then also begs the question of when people do great stuff like Frankie did (and of course not forgetting that it's also the users of these tools/sites who are contributing), how do you feed that content back into the process and hence eventually, as appropriate, back into the source data, thereby capturing any enhancements?
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James Morley [log in to unmask]
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From: Museums Computer Group [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mia [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 11 March 2011 13:38
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Science Museum, National Media Museum, National Railway Museum object records released
On 11 March 2011 10:03, Frankie Roberto <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> large, fairly static databases like object
> records, complete data dumps are probably more useful for developers than an
> object-level API, at least initially.
I should point out that 'static' is very relative - the documentations
team (who are completely brilliant and are really the ones responsible
for the success of this data release) made 50,000 improvements in
2010, though of course there's a lot of on-going auditing and cleaning
left to do.
Cheers, Mia
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